Well a little bit of whats been happening on the adoption front. Our home study is completed, AND, approved by our agency's national office. The past couple of weeks Sarah and I, mostly Sarah, have been working on our dossier. That will also get paired with our home study. We are in the home stretch of paper work for now.
I have spent a lot of time thinking about what our pastor preached on Sunday. It was from Ecclesiastes 1: (vs) 2. "Meaningless! Meaningless!" says the Teacher. "Utterly meaningless! Everything is meaningless." 3. What does man gain from all his labor from which he toils under the sun? 4. Generations come and generations go. but the earth remains forever.
He read some more but my mind seemed to stop at those verses. After verse four I started thinking about orphans, naturally, and then thinking about myself, then thinking about Mother Teresa. Now I can't remember anything he preached about. I was thinking that generations come and go, but how many of those people do I remember. Even my great grandmother I barely remember. I wonder if this is how orphans think and feel. Some tragedy had to have happened in order for them to end up in an orphanage. So they might start to think that everything is meaningless. That they will come and go and no one will remember them. Worse yet, they may feel that no one has cared enough to love them. Then I started thinking of Mother Teresa and all of the selfless love she poured out to the "least of these", and how everyone around the world knows her for this. In turn, people have been inspired by the love she showed and they now pour out their love on others like she did. We had some friends that donated a very large sum of money for our adoption. As we were very grateful for this we also felt like we needed to tell them that we are working on making donations tax deductible through an organization, and maybe they wanted to wait to see if everything worked out. They told us that they did not do this looking for a tax write off, but instead said they did it because we are their friends and are proud of what we are doing. Now to me that is inspiration. Then I thought about my own life. Have I done enough to show God's love to the "least of these"? Some people will say that helping one orphan is a lot, but I'm here to tell you, for me, I don't think it will ever be done. Yeah maybe one day we will stop adopting kids. Maybe, no promises. Honestly, I hope I am never content with the amount of love I show "the least of these". I guess even more than wanting to adopt our sixth child (this current process is for our fifth) I want to inspire others. I figure if I can inspire others then they will pay it forward, and want to inspire others, and so on, and so on. Just imagine the possibilities.
I leave you with a cool song off of VOTA's newest album
Rock on
J
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